Review of: Albert O. Hirschman. Exit, voice and fidelity: a reaction to the decline of firms, organizations and states. M.: New Publishing House, 2009. 156 p.

Reviewed by: Albert O. Hirschman. Exit, voice, and loyalty: Responses to the decline of firms, organizations, and states. M.: New publishing house, 2009. 156 p.

The word "strategy" was tired of how a dreaming neighbor in the subway. Everyone knows - barely “strategic institutions” and “centers of strategies” flashed on business cards, you understand that you are in Moscow. In the capital of our Motherland, where the myriad layers of empty words of journalism have accumulated. Why does Obama go to Moscow, not solving undoubtedly more important issues for America?

Olga Andreeva Review by: Norman Lebrecht. Maestro Myth: Great conductors in the battle for power. M., Classics XXI century, 2007. 448 p. A book as a by-product of a journalist’s daily activities is a special phenomenon of today’s book market. Norman Lebrecht is a journalist. For the journalists themselves, this explains a lot. And yet a book is a book. Of course, you can read the sacramental on the cover - for a wide range of readers. Fine.

The expert dialogue “ What Russia thinks ”, which was held in Moscow from June 28 to July 3 and organized by the “Russian Institute” and the Bulgarian Center for Liberal Strategies, is the first of the four seminars planned for the next year and a half, which can be combined under the conditional name “Brick thinks”. The goal of the organizers is obvious.

Having just returned from the next - the penultimate - meetings of the conference “ What does Russia think? ", Which the Russian Institute suits simultaneously with the Bulgarian Center for Liberal Strategies, I was surprised to find that this event had already received very biased lighting from one of its participants - David Ignatius - in his traditional column in The Washington Post. At the first two meetings of the conference, it was mainly about the domestic policy of Russia, and Mr.

From the editorial office. The penultimate number “RG is the topic of the week”, dedicated to the topic “How the United States Think of Russia” caused a discussion among intellectuals. This discussion is of particular relevance on the eve of the visit of US President Barack Obama to Moscow.

Review by: Varlamov A. N. Mikhail Bulgakov. M.: Young Guard, 2008 (ZhZL). 840 pp. * * * The biographical genre is indestructible. He will be the last to disappear from the face of the earth, along with literature as such.

Review of: T. Yu. Boroday. The birth of a philosophical concept. God and matter in the dialogs of Plato. M.: Publisher Savin S. a., 2008, 283 p. * * * In the stunning book of Tatyana Yuryevna Boroday about Plato, or rather, about the formation of a philosophical concept of Plato, there are several typos that arose as a result of a malfunction of the codes.

Review of: Charles Tilly. Coercion, capital and European states. 990 - 1992 M.: Territory of the future, 2009. 328 p. "What explains the wide variety of types of political formations (in time and space) in Europe after 990 AD and why did European states over time transformed into different forms of national states?" (p. 27).

Review by: Charles Tilly. Coercion, capital and European states. 990 – 1992 M.: Territory of the Future, 2009. 328 p. “What explains the wide variety of types of political entities (in time and space) in Europe after 990 AD, and why did European states transform over time into different forms of nation-states?” (p. 27).

Review of: Varlamov A. N. Mikhail Bulgakov. M.: Young Guard, 2008 (ZhZL). 840 p. * * * The biographical genre is indestructible. From the face of the earth, he will disappear the last, along with literature as such.

From the editorial office. From June 28 to July 3, the expert dialogue “What Russia thinks”, organized by the Russian Institute and the Center for Liberal Strategies (Sofia) in Alexander House.

Zykina, or how does the Volga flow The biopsy of the spirit Andrey Ashkerov My childhood coincided with the moment when the fat and full -breasted Brezhnev era began to smoothly decline. Having drowned out, she quietly reborn into Andropov timelessness (in a strange way not ended to this day). Zykina in this era filled the place of the pop primadon , which now belongs to Pugacheva. (Then, of course, it seemed that Pugacheva no Zykinsky state monumentality threatens - for that she was loved).

Going to visit Russia next week, Barack Obama should take with him the novel by Fedor Dostoevsky "Brothers Karamazov." Indeed, in modern Russia, Vladimir Putin is still fighting with the same political problems that Fedor Dostoevsky described 130 years ago.